Douglas Kellner’s Cultural Critical Theory And Referential Significance

In the21th century, with the progress of science and technology,millions of families have TV and computers. So people have more waysto get the information related to the culture. It become a problem that howto understanding the complicated cultural information. Douglas kellner asa Western marxist criticism theoretician, one of the most influentialcontemporary cultural analysis, use of Marxist dialectical analysismethod and integration of the Frankfurt School and British thinking tobuild the idea of a “critical cultural studies”.Kellner’s culture theory built on the basis of theory and practice.Theoretically, Kellner culture theory use of Marxist dialectical analysismethod and integration of the Frankfurt School and British CulturalStudies. In practice, with the development and the progress of science andtechnology, today’s culture as well as the problems faced by its spread is also changing, which requires the development of Series theory adapt tothe change of Real life, it also become the basis of kellner’s culturecritical theory.Kellner argue that nowdays media is the most important ways forcommunication and he called his research on culture as media culture.The media culture theory of kellner by age positioning and build anidentity and political interpretations of media culture concludes that themedia has a high degree of political and ideological culture. At the sametime, kellner definition media spectacle as the media in the form of adramatic to guide people’s value concept, value orientation. What’s more,introduce kellner’s theory of media spectacle used to prove the influenceof media culture for people’s way of thinking and values. We affirmed theresearch methods of the multicultural concept as well as the use ofmulti-angle study for cultural. Kellner aslo combined with the specificcontext in the study and so on,These are worth learning. But its theoryalso has certain limitations as Kellner’s class limitations and exaggeratethe real role of culture which is Utopian. Kellner is very familiar to American cultural hegemony. He believesthat America’s cultural exports a considerable extent on the output of itsideology, Kellner combined his theory and American reality, analysis ofthe United States as represented by McDonald’s chain of fast-foodindustry advocated capitalism lifestyle, Hollywood and the United Statesas the representative of the cultural level of the peaceful evolution in themovie by shaping the dualistic character image and identity for the heroesto achieve their ideological output purposes.Kellner’s culture theory has a certain significance both in theory andpractice of China. The theory to inspiration for the Chinese to build aculture of research ideas and also a reference for the development of theMarxist theory of ideology. With the advent of the Media Age, Kellner’stheory of cultural criticism certain referential significance for how toresist the erosion of capitalist culture and how to maintain the orderlynature of the Chinese domestic media.